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Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences 学习预测：第二语言对缩减的多词序列的感知

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241246147

David Tizón-Couto, David Lorenz

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High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing 高就足够好第二语言听觉加工中的性别一致和相对从句附着

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241246733

Daniel Vergara, Gilda Socarrás

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Complex dynamic systems theory as a foundation for process-oriented research on second language development 复杂动态系统理论是以过程为导向的第二语言发展研究的基础

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241246739

Marijn van Dijk, Wander Lowie, Nienke Smit, Marjolijn Verspoor, Paul van Geert

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The relationship between L2 learners’ production and perception of English vowels: The role of native-speaker acoustic patterns in production 第二语言学习者英语元音的发音与感知之间的关系：母语声学模式在发音中的作用

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241240868

Jae Yung Song, Fred Eckman

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The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones 第二语言学习经验对韩国听者使用音高线索感知粤语音调的影响

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241244604

Zhen Qin, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Haifeng Qi

{"title":"The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones","authors":"Zhen Qin, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Haifeng Qi","doi":"10.1177/02676583241244604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241244604","url":null,"abstract":"Past studies have found that the linguistic experience of previously-acquired languages, such as one’s native-language (L1) and second-language (L2) learning experience, modulates the perception of novel sounds from a third language (L3). Lexical tone in L3 is a good case for testing the influence of L1 or L2, as listeners with varying language backgrounds may use different pitch cues (pitch contour or height) in tone perception. The present study focuses on L2 learners of Mandarin whose L1 variety is either Seoul Korean (SK), a non-tonal stressless language, or Gyeongsang Korean (GK), a tonal pitch-accent language. Intermediate-to-advanced SK-speaking and GK-speaking L2 learners of Mandarin were recruited as target groups, and naive listeners of respective L1 varieties were recruited as control groups. The participants completed an AX forced-choice tone discrimination task. Four Cantonese tones, one rising tone and three level tones, were used. Contour–level and level–level tonal contrasts were target tone pairs, allowing for testing the primary use of pitch contour and pitch height, respectively. The results showed that the two groups of naive listeners had greater accuracy in discriminating level–level than contour–level tonal contrasts. In contrast, L2 learners, independent of their L1 varieties, showed higher accuracy in discriminating contour–level than level–level tonal contrasts. The L2 learners’ perceptual pattern is consistent with Mandarin listeners, as reported in previous work. Taken together, the findings provide evidence for a possible developmental change in which Korean-speaking L2 learners might have a perceptual cue shift from pitch height to pitch contour through their L2 experience in Mandarin. The findings about the role of L2 proficiency in Mandarin further supported the effect of L2 experience on learners’ increased use of pitch contour.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140576055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language 以希腊语为第一语言、以俄语为第一语言和以土耳其语为第一语言的挪威语第二语言使用者在语法性别分配和预测处理方面的跨语言效应

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241227709

Janne Bondi Johannessen, Björn Lundquist, Yulia Rodina, Eirik Tengesdal, Nina Hagen Kaldhol, Emel Türker, Valantis Fyndanis

{"title":"Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language","authors":"Janne Bondi Johannessen, Björn Lundquist, Yulia Rodina, Eirik Tengesdal, Nina Hagen Kaldhol, Emel Türker, Valantis Fyndanis","doi":"10.1177/02676583241227709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241227709","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian with three different first languages (L1s): Greek, Russian, and Turkish. In particular, it investigates the role of the following factors: (1) presence vs. absence of grammatical gender in L1 (Norwegian, Greek and Russian have gender, whereas Turkish does not), (2) lexical gender congruency, (3) structural similarity between L1 and L2 in the realization of gender, and (4) proficiency in L2. In offline production, no difference was found between the three L2 groups: they all overused the default gender (masculine). However, L1 effects were observed in the eye-tracking task, where the high-proficiency L1 Greek and L1 Russian speakers showed earlier and more prominent signs of predictive gender processing compared to the high-proficiency L1 Turkish speakers. There were no effects of lexical gender congruency or structural similarity. This suggests that, when it comes to predictive gender processing, what matters is proficiency and the presence vs. absence of grammatical gender in the L1. We interpret the findings in the context of current approaches to predictive processing emphasizing the role of cue reliability and utility.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating 日英双语归国儿童五年内的语言变化：来自口音评级的证据

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241230854

Tim Joris Laméris, Maki Kubota, Tanja Kupisch, Jennifer Cabrelli, Neal Snape, Jason Rothman

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Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching 双语儿童处理代码转换过程中的激活和局部抑制作用

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241232221

Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Tamara Gómez Carrero, Juana M. Liceras

{"title":"Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching","authors":"Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Tamara Gómez Carrero, Juana M. Liceras","doi":"10.1177/02676583241232221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241232221","url":null,"abstract":"Codeswitching has been used as a tool to investigate how the properties of the two language systems interact in the bilingual mind with relatively few studies investigating bilingual children. We target two groups of L1-Spanish–L2-English children in Spain to address language activation and language inhibition in the processing of codeswitching between a determiner (DET) and a noun (N). We investigate how the mental representation of the formal features involved is responsible for the sensitivity to grammatical gender, which in turn affects how bilinguals’ language activation and inhibition processes are at play and shape processing. We target both the directionality of the switch (English-DET–Spanish-N vs. Spanish-DET–English-N) and the type of implicit gender agreement mechanism (in the case of Spanish-DET–English-N switches) by using offline acceptability judgment data and eyetracking during reading data. Results suggest lower processing costs of English DET switches and higher ones of non-congruent Spanish DET switches. We interpret the preference for classifying the non-gendered Ns along the lines of the gendered Ns in the gendered language as evidence for the integrated representation hypothesis which states that both Ns depicting the same concept are connected in the mind of the bilingual.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140106805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality 动力系统理论能否应用于第二语言习得？还原论和意向性问题

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241229280

Manfred Pienemann, Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas

{"title":"Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality","authors":"Manfred Pienemann, Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas","doi":"10.1177/02676583241229280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241229280","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we address two key questions in the application of dynamical systems theory (DST) to second language acquisition (SLA) that have not been resolved in recent debates about this issue. The first question relates to reductionism. Is an antireductionist position a necessary element of DST? We show that the radical antireductionist stance put forward by key movers of the application of DST to SLA neither follows from the mathematics of DST nor from the application of DST to science and that radical antireductionism results in an impasse for empirical research. In contrast, we argue that reductionism offers ways in which theory-derived hypotheses can be formed about subsystems that can be studied empirically using DST mathematics. The second question relates to intentionality. Are physical systems and mental systems similar enough to justify applying DST principles based in the physical sciences to processes in the human mind? Following Tschacher, we argue that current evidence suggests that there is a limited class of mental phenomena that can arise from physical phenomena. It is only this class of mental phenomena that can currently be modeled using DST mathematics. We offer a discussion of these perspectives to indicate how important it is to resolve these fundamental questions. In our view, these fundamental issues need resolution to put the application of DST to SLA on a solid conceptual and empirical footing.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140076448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language speakers 第二语言使用者对不同类型预设触发器的在线处理和离线判断

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241232218

Shuo Feng, Kailun Zhang

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